[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
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[S. 2006 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]






                                                       Calendar No. 427
108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2006

 To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation 
                  Act of 2002, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 20, 2004

 Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Daschle, Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Murray, Ms. 
Cantwell, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Levin, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Dodd, 
 Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
 Leahy, Mr. Dayton, Mrs. Boxer, and Mr. Byrd) introduced the following 
                  bill; which was read the first time

                            January 21, 2004

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
 To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation 
                  Act of 2002, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Unemployment Compensation 
Amendments of 2004''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 
              ACT OF 2002.

    (a) In General.--Section 208 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 30), as amended 
by Public Law 108-1 (117 Stat. 3) and the Unemployment Compensation 
Amendments of 2003 (Public Law 108-26; 117 Stat. 751), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``December 31, 2003'' 
        and inserting ``June 30, 2004'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``December 31, 2003'' 
        and inserting ``June 30, 2004'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(2)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``december 31, 
                2003'' and inserting ``june 30, 2004''; and
                    (B) by striking ``December 31, 2003'' and inserting 
                ``June 30, 2004''; and
            (4) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``March 31, 2004'' 
        and inserting ``September 30, 2004''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Temporary Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 
21).

SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL REVISION TO CURRENT TEUC-X TRIGGER.

    Section 203(c)(2)(B) of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 30) is amended 
to read as follows:
                    ``(B) such a period would then be in effect for 
                such State under such Act if--
                            ``(i) section 203(d) of such Act were 
                        applied as if it had been amended by striking 
                        `5' each place it appears and inserting `4'; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) with respect to weeks of 
                        unemployment beginning on or after the date of 
                        enactment of this clause--
                                    ``(I) paragraph (1)(A) of such 
                                section 203(d) did not apply; and
                                    ``(II) clause (ii) of section 
                                203(f)(1)(A) of such Act did not 
                                apply.''.

SEC. 4. TEMPORARY STATE AUTHORITY TO WAIVE APPLICATION OF LOOKBACKS 
              UNDER THE FEDERAL-STATE EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT 
              COMPENSATION ACT OF 1970.

    For purposes of conforming with the provisions of the Federal-State 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note), a 
State may, during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this 
Act and ending on June 30, 2004, waive the application of either 
subsection (d)(1)(A) of section 203 of such Act or subsection 
(f)(1)(A)(ii) of such section, or both.




                                                       Calendar No. 427

108th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2006

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation 
                  Act of 2002, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 21, 2004

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar